SD vs Chroma Link by Prolycht
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SD
Control your Sound Devices 8-Series mixer-recorder remotely from your iPad or iPhone. Manage transport, edit metadata, take notes, monitor outputs, and adjust channel settings like faders, trims, and pan. View large-scale meters and timecode on all screens.
- Remote transport controls
- Metadata editing
- Take notes
- Monitor outputs
- Adjust faders, trims, and pan
- Channel arming, disarming, solo, and mute
- Large-scale channel meters
- Timecode display
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Control your Sound Devices 8-Series mixer-recorder from your iPad or iPhone with SD-Remote. Quickly access transport controls, edit metadata, write Take Notes, monitor outputs, and adjust faders, trims, and pan controls. Arm, disarm, solo, and mute channels with ease. Large-scale meters are available for all channels, and the current timecode is displayed on every screen.
Chroma Link by Prolycht
Control professional lighting fixtures with intelligent adjustments for white light, color, and dynamic effects. Save and load custom settings, and even integrate with third-party DMX-compatible lights.
- White light control
- Color light adjustment
- Skin-tone correction
- Dynamic lighting effects
- Save/load preferences
- DMX protocol support
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Launched by Prolycht Lighting.Chroma Link is the first app that controls Prolycht Lighting’s products, including Thunder One, Thunder Lite，Orion300 and up-coming new products. It provides intelligent control of white light, color light, skin-tone adjustment, commonly used gels, and dynamic lighting effects. Users are able to save and load their preferences. Chroma Link also supports third-party lighting products that run DMX protocol.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chroma Link by Prolycht at 5.0 against SD's 3.4. Chroma Link by Prolycht also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). SD's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chroma Link by Prolycht holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SD has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SD ships an update every 2 months, Chroma Link by Prolycht every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SD | Chroma Link by Prolycht |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sound Devices, LLC | Sidus Link Ltd. |
Customer experience
SD
Chroma Link by Prolycht
In-app purchases
SD
No in-app purchases
Chroma Link by Prolycht
No in-app purchases
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